I have a friend with an Evo 4g that opted not to have contacts synced to gmail (unknowingly). Her phone is now stuck in an endless bootloop (unrooted, completely stock) and she can't do anything with it. Is there a way to get her contacts from her SD card or are they stored on the phone's internal storage?
They are stored in the internal storage.
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Nope, if she didn't back them up before, and she didn't have them as Google Contacts synced with gmail, then there is no other way to get them. Once again, another reason to stress the importance of backing up files, no matter what kind of files they are, or how secure or safe you feel.
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I have pictures that I deleted from my computer but somehow synced with my evo. They only show up in the second gallery application that comes stock on the phone. When highlighting both the whole album and individual pictures in the album there is no option to delete. All other albums have a picture of a folder except this album which has a sync icon. I reformatted my SD card and they were still there. I did a factory reset on the phone and they went away but came back. I put a new SD card in the phone and the pictures are still on the phone which leads me to believe they are saved on the internal memory of the phone. Has anyone experienced an issue similar to this? How do you access the phones internal memory? Any help would be awesome because I am so lost.
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Hi a while ago i was trying to root my phone,so i copied the contents of two sd cards on to my pc,whilst resetting everything last time,and inserting the memory card with one of the images,all my messages returned again,so somewhere on the sd memory this lives,id rather not go through the process of transferring stuff off etc of my current mem card,so does anyone know the location of the data relating to messages?
I know it seems longwinded but if anyone knows id appreciate it as i need one of those messages
I am sure that SMS messages are not stored in the SDcard. They should be stored somewhere in the /data folder in the internal memory...
However, I think your messages came back from HTC sense account sync if you had one before you wiped everything.
Setup HTC sense account again and cross your fingers, if you have a sense account now, delete it a re-do it and hope that might help.
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I really fail to see what HTC Sense Accounts were about. It was probably a major factor in me getting a DHD over the D (of course, now that I am running a custom ROM, I wouldn't go back!).
Anywho, they are meant to be able to track your phone, see where it has been, store all your messages etc. I set it up as instructed, logged in, ran through all the hopes, enabled all the right settings, and what happens? Nothing. 95% of the time when I try to access the site, it doesn't want to work. Also, it has only saved about my first 5 text messages.
In the end I find that using SMSBackup+ is the best thing to do. It allows you to backup all your texts/mms/call log to your GMail account.
Sprint just sent me a new Epic due to problem with my current phone (which is rooted and running CleanGB).
I actually want to roll with the new phone in stock condition for a bit, just to see how the other half lives and to see if GPS is more stable.
What would happen if I popped my old SD card into the new phone? My primary question is text messages. Will the new phone see my SMS threads and just pick up where my old phone left off? If not, is there someway to get the new phone to recognize the SMS threads so that I'm not starting from scratch?
And what about apps? There are a bunch of apps installed to the card that won't be installed on the new phone. Will the phone ignore these apps or will it install the apps if it sees them on the SD card?
Any other issues I should know about? Or is this a bad idea with disaster written all over it?
TIA
You can use your sd card without any problems.
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Thanks for the response but not clear regarding my specific questions.
Will the new phone recognize my SMS threads and pick up where I left off?
I'm going to assume from your response that there is no problem with the previously installed apps. What if I want to install an app on the new phone that was previously installed on the card (old phone), will there be any problems? Say Amazon was previously installed on the SD card and I want to install it on the new phone. Any potential problems in that scenario?
sms are stored on the phone, not the sd card. i think if you sent the old phone back, the texts are gone for good.
im not sure about the apps on the sd card, but they would probably work on the new phone, as when you install apps to sd, everything the need to run is on the sd card.
what i would do, is copy the contents of the card to my computer, then format it and use ot on the new phone.
you could also just create a folder on the card named "old card" or something to that effect, cut and paste the contents of the card to the new folder. stick a .no media text file in there with it, and your phone should never even look at the contents of that folder.
Yeah, sorry i didnt elaborate more. I would consider your sms messages gone. As far as apps installed on it, they will still be there and if an update is needed you will see notifications for it.
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If you still have the old phone run SMS back up then run it on new phone and you will have all old messages.
Or download google voice. All your texts show up in there too.
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Or download google voice. All your texts show up in there too.
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Will Google Voice sync MMS messages or just SMS?
Yeah nothing will happen to your new phone. Your sdcard is just an extra storage
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Hi, i am upgrading my G3 micro SD to a larger size because it is almost full. What is the best way to move the files over from one card to another? Will a straight copy from one card to another work? I would think that would cause issues because the phone has apps stored on the sd card. Also, can you set the contacts app to store to the sd card so when you flash ROMs on the phone you dont loose your contact data? Could you use clockworkmod to backup the old card and restore it to the new card? TIA for any help.
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I would be interested on this answer as well, I can tell you that straight copy/parte doesn't work, I got a larger SDcard for my Bday and tried doing it that way, and it didn't work, what I did was to reformat the SDcard and start fresh, (I really didn't have much stuff there yet). would love to know the "right" way to do this when your SDcard is full.
Transfer to computer then transfer to new card?
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That's what I did, put the card into my laptop and create a dir to drag and drop the entire contents of the old card into. Then put in the new card and d&d them all to the new card. All done in the three or four mouse clicks.
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as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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as for contacts... why aren't you using Google sync?
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Well, honestly, i am still getting comfortable with storage in the cloud and i prefer my contacts to be locally for security reasons. I have had my contacts and business data hacked before, my industry is very competitive. I also don't like how one sevice syncs with another service syncs with another service .. next thing you know, your personal data is synced to 10 servers like facebook, linkedin, samsung, google, at&t, ect.... i only want to sync what i want to sync with who i want to sync with and since i don't know how to sync selectively at the moment i am syncing very little. I work in different business worlds that dont mix well... Maybe i am a little paranoid!! Any advice would be appreciated.
You can export your contacts to SD card before you flash. You can import from your SD card after you flash and all is back as it was.
USB storage is internal
SD Card is external
Look under contact/options/Import-export
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As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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As said earlier.
For contacts open up contacts click menu, click import/export and export to sd card.
When contacts are on there.. Make a folder on ur desktop and copy all files and folders into there.
Copy all the stuff back over to the new sd card.
Give it some time to re scan etc after u boot your phone..
Then go back to contacts and this time import instead of export.
All of your data/files/pics/everything will be as it was before.
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Thanks, i will give that a try.
Thanks, i will give that a try.
ok so i got a 16g sd card, so now i want to put it in. I have all my pics and contacts on there. i can move my pics i did with picasa. but with my apps and other info i cant move my contacts to my phone, i havent tried to but i need to know how, i know i dont have room because my phone is giving me the low memory alert. please help a dummy with this cause idk lol Thanks!
Your contacts should he backed up on your Google account if not you would have to back em up to cloud storage or use a computer to copy or move everything you need to
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